Singer Mariah Carey discussed how she overcame bipolar disorder in an interview with People magazine this month. “I’m actually taking medication that seems to be pretty good. It’s not making me feel too

In the short term, stress does not cause depression. Stress activates the fight-or-flight system, motivating people to try harder and, hopefully, overcome the problem. It does this by raising stress hormones like cortisol

More than 50 years after its release, lithium remains the top-ranked treatment for bipolar disorder, both in patient surveys and in the research. It also treats non-bipolar depression, and is the only mediation that